Chapter 6: The Witch's Cabin of Time
On the open field, three people gathered around a claw machine, watching the movements of the metal claws intently.
Before Wang Jue arrived, Zhao Yijiu tried two more times, but they were unsuccessful, so Wang Jue became the hope of the whole village.
"Awesome!" Yu Xing watched the penultimate coin being thrown in, and Wang Jue easily manipulated the button, grabbed a head doll and sent it to the exit.
Wang Jue's arrival gave the stagnant amusement project a way to live, and there were already two heads in the passage below, which were picked up by Yu Xing and placed on the top of the crane machine.
Now the third one is being caught.
"This is not difficult at all, it is fixed to death, it is not easy to shake down, it is much easier to grasp than the crane machine outside." Wang Jue thought in pieces, unable to imagine how Yu Xing and Zhao Yijiu could not hold a head in five coins, and Zhao Yijiu was silent, and Yu Xing echoed with a "mmmm" next to him.
Soon, the third head of the elderly person was clipped.
"I'm glad to have you, otherwise we would have scrapped this project." Yu Xing sighed.
"Hey, it's okay." Wang Jue took out the third head from the passage and looked left and right at the wrinkles on his face, "What about the clues?" β
The sign said that three heads could get clues, but it didn't mention where the clues were, Yu Xing spread his hands and casually touched the head on the top of the machine, but he didn't expect to touch it empty.
He raised his eyebrows, and when he turned his head, the two heads he had placed before were goneβwhere are my heads?
I'm just here here~ Where are the two heads?
didn't give him a chance to think about it, Yu Xing's neck was cold, something was fluffy, densely wound up.
He reached out to touch it, and the thing around his neck immediately tightened, causing a feeling of suffocation.
It's hair!
In addition to his hair, there seemed to be something against the back of his neck, giggling.
That should be the face.
The movements of these two heads were really silent, and Yu Xing was so close to the heads that he didn't hear them disappear.
His eyes froze, and he took a moment to look at the other two in his tightened hair.
The three heads were evenly distributed, and one of them gurgled and rolled on the ground, and then bounced up like a leather ball, leaving a few pieces of minced flesh in place every time it borrowed force on the ground, which was disgusting.
As he flicked, he was stabbed into the Tianling cover by Zhao Yijiu's knife, and half of the machinery collided with the metal of the knife, making a faint buzz.
"Wow!" Before Wang Jue could see what had happened, the head in his hand suddenly opened his eyes, opened his bloody mouth, and bit his wrist.
He was so close that he could see the bloody carrion in the human head and mouth, and the especially sharp teeth for some reason.
If this bite continues, his hand will be wasted!
At that moment, Wang Jue didn't care about anything, and a yellow talisman appeared out of thin air on his fingertips, which quickly stuck to the mouth of the human head.
After the rune paper touched the human head, a cold air flow erupted, and the human head opened its mouth in pain, and was cut by the invisible blade, which was quite effective on the human half, and only a shallow white scratch was left on the mechanical half.
Fortunately, after Wang Jue was on guard, the head couldn't bite him for a while.
Seeing that the three of them were attacked, the Alice-headed puppet of the crane machine finally spoke: "The clue is in the mouth of one of the heads. β
Wang Jue reacted instantly, and looked at the screams of Huang Fu with mixed feelings, but in fact, there was nothing to do at all: only in the mouth of one of the heads, it must not be me?
He didn't want to see more clearly.
"Not with me." Zhao Yijiu skewered the human head like a skewer, and said in a deep voice after opening the human head's mouth.
The clue could only be in the mouth of the long-haired man who was entangled in Yu Xing.
The two of them looked at Yu Xing, who was still wrapped around his neck with his hair around his neck and seemed to be unable to breathe.
Wang Jue looked at Yu Xing as a good young man, with a cheerful personality and politeness, his face was white at the moment, as if there was no blood under his skin, and he couldn't help but think of helping: "Let's see if you can break it!" If I can't, I-"
"Yes." Yu Xing listened, raised his hand and pulled his hair out, and suddenly regained his ability to breathe, "I just look at how much it has, after wrapping it for a long time, it's just a small bunch, and I can't even cover my mouth and nose, it's bald!" β
Wang Jue: "......"
Zhao Yijiu: "......"
Yu Xing was also a thief, the human head was behind him and strangled him in two bundles, so he grabbed one bunch with each hand and pulled it out, and the force was so great that he almost didn't tear off the hair of the human head and the scalp together.
The human head had long since stopped giggling, and with the sharp pain in its scalp, it howled in pain.
It sounds weird and miserable.
"This man's head is so strong, you can actually tear it off with your bare hands?" After a short period of speechlessness, Wang Jue suddenly realized that something was wrong.
"yes, you're a little stronger than I thought." Zhao Yijiu also followed, and vigilance flashed in his eyes, "Although it is the first time to enter the deduction game together, I don't see that you have this side at all when I usually work." You're good at hiding. β
Wang Jue looked at the two of them and thought about it a little.
These two people are said to be colleagues in reality, but listening to this meaning, Zhao Yijiu doesn't trust Yu Xing very much? That is to say, in Zhao Yijiu's heart, Yu Xing has the possibility of a murderer?
He observed Yu Xing, and found that the other party's hand paused after hearing Zhao Yijiu's words, and the expression on his face seemed to be embarrassed for a moment, and it was immediately covered up: "Ahahaha, no, which deducer is not good at hiding." β
"Perhaps." Zhao Yijiu glanced at Yu Xing coldly, and his eyes fell on the head of the person who was caught by Yu Xing, "Take the clue." β
Yu Xing stopped talking nonsense and handed his head over.
The long-haired human head was dying, and his eyes were dripping, Zhao Yijiu took it, forcefully broke the mouth of the human head, and saw the white paper after two rows of flat teeth.
He pulled out the paper in disgust, and saw a sentence on the paper: "The detective has not been with the murderer so far." β
When he had finished reading, he showed the paper to the other two, and then shoved it back into the man's mouth in disgust.
As soon as the hand was released, the head fled, and flew back into the crane machine from the passage, filling the vacant seat in a proper manner.
This......
What kind of clue is this?
After Zhao Yijiu read out the clues, Wang Jue's expression cracked a little.
But this clue ...... It does seem to help with reasoning.
"Wang Jue, did you act with Xie Ze before? How did it come to us all of a sudden? "Yu Xing" thought about it and asked curiously.
"The merry-go-round that Xie Ze and I played just now, and then Xie Ze suddenly said that he didn't worry about the two of them walking together, that is, he didn't worry about me - he happened to see the couple on the Ferris wheel, and he was going to find them over there." Wang Jue said depressedly, "I originally went with me, but in the next project, they planned to play the big swivel chair, and the upper limit was three people, so they threw me away." Ling Heng told me that they saw the two of you go to the crane machine area on the Ferris wheel, and asked me to come to you. β
I see.
Yu Xing nodded thoughtfully.
The murderer will inevitably approach the others to find out which one is more like the deceased, and the detective can contact the deceased to protect the deceased, or they can stay away from the deceased, so that the murderer is not sure who the deceased is.
Everyone is secretly observing others, and in addition to the clues on the surface, everyone's intentions and behaviors are enough to expose a lot of things.
The three of them had their own ideas and walked towards the next project, and the sign in the crane machine area was replaced with the words "This project is temporarily closed".
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I originally wanted to play a haunted house.
But Wang Jue howled and said that he was afraid of ghosts, and he didn't want to be frightened by ghosts in non-supernatural deduction games, so he was stunned and didn't want to enter in front of the haunted house.
So Yu Xing gave full play to the few human brilliance on his body, patted Wang Jue's shoulder very tolerantly and compassionately, and changed his goal from a haunted house to other indoor projects.
They walked for a long time, and finally found a strange facility in the corner of the park, which was a small wooden house with gears all over the walls, and a steam pipe sticking out of one place, whirring white gas out.
Alice's head is made into a sign and hung on the door, with the Gothic script written on the bottom - The Witch's Time Cottage.
When he pushed the door open, the bell sounded ethereally, and Yu Xing's footsteps slowed down for a moment, and he looked around in amazement.
This place...... It's special.
Especially when the three of them came in, they were silenced in unison.
As soon as you enter the house, you can feel the difference between this place and other places, the same steampunk style decoration, but here there is a more visible sense of staleness than other places.
The overall tone here is a hazy moon gold, and under the reflection of the light, a few wisps of gray are inexplicably revealed in the mildness.
It's like the time that should have been moving forward normally...... It's rusty.
Time is an abstract concept, but Yu Xing had this idea in an instant.
In his eyes, time......
It's too frustrating.
He retracted his thoughts in the footsteps of Zhao Yijiu and Wang Jue, and continued to look.
The hall is carpeted with dark gold, and in addition to a brown hardwood sofa and coffee table, there is also a display stand.
The display stands are filled with delicate artifacts from various eras, including ornaments from the Eiffel Tower and Big Ben in London, as well as codex books that can be used as gifts, pen holders decorated with pinions, and models of Gothic castles......
Hundreds of items were gorgeously piled up, and he could only name most of them, and there were some things on the table that he had never even seen.
I picked up a quill pen at random, the weight of the pen was unexpected, heavy, and I don't know what material it was.
Around the hall are thick white threads, on which are several photographs of portraits and scenery, as well as blurry tiles of unknown meaning and uncomfortable horror images.
Yu Xing looked at these photos and suddenly felt very familiar.
He put down his quill and paused in front of an earthy photograph of a dilapidated wooden boat washed up in the mud with its oars leaning crookedly against its hull.
Through the small wooden boat, you can vaguely see the village not far away.
"It's so familiar......" Yu Xing muttered, as if she had a feeling, carefully observing the photos.
Everything in the photo seems to have been experienced by him...... Presumably.
"What are you staring at a tree for?" Wang Jue leaned over and pointed to the photo of the small wooden boat, "Anyway, I am so familiar with this big willow tree, why can't I remember it." β
Tree?
Yu Xing looked at the small wooden boat, and then looked at Wang Jue.
Wang Jue's brain should be fine.
Then, that is to say, in the same photo, what I see is different from what Wang Jue sees.
He instantly reacted that these photos should have been generated based on everyone's different memories.
Suddenly, Yu Xing's afterglow caught a touch of red.
His face suddenly became gloomy, and he left Wang Jue, who was still sighing, and walked towards the photo where the red was.
This photo is old and has begun to turn yellow.
In the photo, a handsome man in a pale robe and horse coat sits on a wooden chair with intricate patterns, and his natural smiling eyes look at Yu Xing outside the photo with indescribable penetration.
The man has a very characteristic earring hanging from his left ear, and there is a long tassel hanging under the slender glass, and the red is the color of the glass and the tassel itself.
It's an eerie color of blood.
There was a transcendent beauty in this man, Yu Xing stared at him calmly, but his fingers clenched unconsciously, almost sinking into the flesh.
"Servant ......," he muttered silently, and the faint smile on the man's face in his eyes seemed to have a hint of mockery.
Yu Xing didn't expect that this so-called time hut would be able to reproduce his memories in these photos.
These photographs bring out many of the experiences that he deliberately buried, especially the blood feud.
"Welcome."
Suddenly, the door to the inner hall opened, and a cold and smooth voice greeted like a clear spring, and then a woman with long hair stepped out of the room.
All three in the hall came to their senses.
Yu Xing withdrew his gaze from the photo, a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and looked at the owner of this room.
Unexpectedly, I could see an NPC with normal human appearance all over my body.
The woman was dressed in a black robe, stepping barefoot on the dark gold carpet, and her fair skin was beautiful and delicate.
Her face was even more stunning, completely without makeup, without powder, but more beautiful than any woman Yu Xing had ever seen, especially the eyes that glowed with dark golden light, which seemed to be smiling and cold when looking at her, as if it could make people fall into the whirlpool of time and fall into the whirlpool of time.
For some reason, the woman's gaze stayed on Yu Xing for a long time, and the two looked at each other, and they both saw indifference in each other's eyes.
"Hello!" Wang Jue exhaled, his eyes widened, "May I ask who you are!?" β
This woman's painting style is wrong, hey.
If you use the Cthulhu Running Group as an analogy, it is that this woman's app (appearance) is definitely above the highest value of human beings, and belongs to the category of mythical creatures!
I, I saw at a glance that you weren't human!
The woman finally looked away from Yu Xing, and nodded lightly at Wang Jue: "I'm a witch, in this shop...... Part-time for one day. β
"Meow." A black ball on her shoulder moved, and it turned out to be a kitten that had blended into the black robe.